Las Madres Mary Otis In a race to stop

In a race to stop history from how it's written

slightly tousled but still perfectly poised

distilled to its heartbreaking

Patiently and politely

Las Madres Mary Otis In a race to stopFrom the award winning, best selling author of When I Was Puerto Rican, a powerful novel of family, race, faith, sex, and disaster that moves between Puerto Rico and the Bronx, revealing the lives and loves of five women and the secret that binds them together They refer to themselves as "las Madres," a close knit group of women who, with their daughters, have created a family based on friendship and blood ties. Their story begins in Puerto Rico in